Whether our realities are changed or clarified in the gulag, let us remember the calling of our lives.

“Bless you prison, bless you for being in my life. For there, lying upon the rotting prison straw, I came to realize that the object of life is not prosperity as we are made to believe, but the maturity of the human soul.”

- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago